Take a closer look into why—and where—top programming languages are popular.
The Next 7000 Programming Languages
Landin’s seminal paper “The next 700 programming languages” considered programming languages prior to 1966 and speculated on the next 700. Half-a-century on, we cast programming languages in a Darwinian ‘tree of life’ and explore languages, their features (genes) and language evolution from the viewpoint of ‘survival of the fittest’.
Its Time for a New Programming Language
Today, when compared to any other point in programming history, we find ourselves spoiled for choice when it comes to programming…
The Topos of Programming | Yon
A topos-oriented programming language. Native via MLIR and LLVM, with a content-addressed heap on the Leech lattice.
Why developers at Amazon, Facebook, and Discord love the Rust programming language
Rust has been called the "most loved" programming language on Stack Overflow's annual survey. Here's why it's one of the fastest growing languages.
Most used languages among software developers globally 2025| Statista
As of 2025, JavaScript and HTML/CSS are the most commonly used programming languages among software developers around the world, with more than 66 percent of respondents stating that they used JavaScript and just around 61.9 percent using HTML/CSS.
The Story of C++: The World's Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story
A break from programming languages
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic
After 28 years, are we are finally seeing the beginning of the end for one of the world’s most popular languages?
madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages
I regularly hear people asking which programming language to learn, and then reeling off a list of very similar languages (“Should I learn Java, C#, C++, Python, or Ruby?”). In response I usually tell them that it doesn’t really matter, as long as they get started. There are fundamentals behind them.
Boomerang | Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Bidirectional programming languages are a practical approach to the view update problem. Programs in these languages, called lenses, define both a view and an update policy - i.e., every program can be read as a function mapping sources to views as well ...
Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
dev log #5 - language
Today we get to talk about a topic everybody loves to get excited about - programming languages! More specifically, we're going to talk about the needs when making games with luxe, the landscape of language choices, and the goals of the project being the most relevant decider. Note that the
pldb: programming languages papers
Search 22,324 papers from POPL, PLDI, ICFP, OOPSLA and other programming languages venues, from 1973 to today.
"Concatenative programming and stack-based languages" by Douglas Creager